Our Love Is Here to Stay

Words & Music by George & Ira Gershwin
Recorded by Nat "King" Cole, 1950

Intro Verse*:
Calt C Dm7 Calt C Fm7
The more I read the papers, the less I comprehend
Calt C F Dm Dm7 G7
The world and all its capers and how it all will end.
F Fm7 C F G7
Nothing seems to be lasting, but that isn't our affair.
F Em7 Dm7
We've got something permanent,
G Am7 G7
I mean in the way we care.
Melody:
G Am7 G F Fm
It's ve - y clear
Fdim G7 C C/B Am
Our love is here to stay
Am/G Dm7 G G+ E7 Bm7-5 E7
Not for a year, but ever and a day
F Dm7
The radio and the telephone
C C/B Am
And the movies that we know
F Dm7 G#7 G7
May just be passing fancies and in time may go
G Am7 G F Fm
But oh my dear
Fdim G7 C C/B Am7
Our love is here to stay
Am7/G Dm7 G G+ E7 Bm7-5 E7
Together we're going a long long way
F G
In time the Rockies may crumble,
C Am
Gibraltar may tumble--
F Fm Fdim
They're only made of clay, but
C A7 G Fdim Dm7 G#7 G7
Our love is here to stay.
(instrumental interlude --first 2 lines of last verse)
F G
In time the Rockies may crumble,
C Am
Gibraltar may tumble--
F Fm Fdim
They're only made of clay, but
C A7 G Fdim C A7 Gdim A
Our love is here to, our love is here to
Dm7 F G Dm7 C Fdim C
Our love is here to stay.

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